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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games
« on: November 03, 2012, 04:30:51 am »
I used to play Runescape, and compared to that Riot's community and customer interactions are magically handled. They really do try.
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Dominion Articles / Re: Combo: Ill-Gotten Gain/Develop
« on: November 02, 2012, 01:55:01 pm »
No mention of Develop-Border Village-IGG (an all hinterlands lovefest)? 
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General Discussion / Re: What's your username mean
« on: October 28, 2012, 03:30:28 am »
I believe it's a letter of the alphabet.
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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games
« on: October 27, 2012, 05:53:48 pm »
They've put about 40 hours on the Dark Souls game in the lounge of my dorm... and it's only been out for like 4 days.
Its interesting to see a couple times but not as fun to watch as the more bash-everyone-to-death games.
Its interesting to see a couple times but not as fun to watch as the more bash-everyone-to-death games.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Steward Conundrums
« on: October 24, 2012, 05:05:14 am »
First case I would probably trash 2 estates:
1) Leaner deck
2) Can use steward for +cards next shuffle for guaranteed 3P and even better cycling.
3) will be able to collide steward with curses far more frequently.
You lose the curse split 4-6 probably but trash more on the way and get a slightly better average hand value. If you split 5-5 you smile and cruise to victory.
1) Leaner deck
2) Can use steward for +cards next shuffle for guaranteed 3P and even better cycling.
3) will be able to collide steward with curses far more frequently.
You lose the curse split 4-6 probably but trash more on the way and get a slightly better average hand value. If you split 5-5 you smile and cruise to victory.
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Introductions / Re: Hello, Name's Bruce!
« on: October 19, 2012, 05:59:33 pm »I don't know if I'll make the transition to Goko or not. I absolutely love isotropic and I fear that my response will be similar to the transition from Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 to Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. In a nutshell, they significantly changed the game play and the user interface resulting in hardcore RCT2 players to not want to play RCT3 because is was so drastically different from the original game that they loved.
>Mfw I thought I was alone years ago.
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General Discussion / Re: Baseball playoffs, 2012!!
« on: October 13, 2012, 02:38:11 pm »Sigh... TBS on the other hand, I am sure, is thrilled that all the large market teams made it through.
San Fransisco has 800,000 people. The greater bay area has ~3 million people split between two teams. Not quite large-market.
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General Discussion / Re: Baseball playoffs, 2012!!
« on: October 10, 2012, 08:11:59 pm »
Would be funny if the giants lost two at home only to sweep cincinnati away.
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Game Reports / Re: Move over, mint-FG
« on: October 01, 2012, 01:14:37 am »According to our game chat, he was very ballsy to try the Mint/SC opening though! No, I don't know what that means either.
...in that it was no way clear before playing the game that mint/SC would actually pan out.
Also, you should have focused on some things other than caravans if you wanted to compete in the Grand Market rush. It was not actually solely the 5-2 opening which gave me that split (as I miss out on the early quarry).
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Game Reports / Move over, mint-FG
« on: September 30, 2012, 02:29:05 am »
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201209/29/game-20120929-232407-7a39a6fc.html
In which I use the ever-so-well-known mint-secret chamber-quarry-grand market combo to shoot ahead 5 grand markets by T9.
game of note mostly only because I've never really successfully opened mint-X before, where X was anything but fools gold.
In which I use the ever-so-well-known mint-secret chamber-quarry-grand market combo to shoot ahead 5 grand markets by T9.
game of note mostly only because I've never really successfully opened mint-X before, where X was anything but fools gold.
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Pawn-variant which I didn't submit for the +Buy contest
« on: September 27, 2012, 12:50:22 pm »
weak 4 / strong 3 zone.
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Game Reports / Re: $4 Village + Amba
« on: September 18, 2012, 03:02:33 pm »For what it is worth, I very much support $4 village openings with ambassadors for the most part. Essentially, by going $4 village/ambassador, you are forgoing possibly double ambassdoring T3/T4 for an automatic $4 village. The other method would risk collision and possibly not hitting $4 village on those non-collision turn.
It will take either a strong $5 or Goons for me to consider silver... strong $2 or peddler for double ambassador.
I give more reasoning for $4 village openings if there are no repeatable cards <$4. Much the same reason you want Caravan/Tournament with your ambassador except those are probably stronger.
This probably only works for Worker's village and Walled village. I don't think farming village has the same utility here with ambassador.
If there's no village/engine and you open doubleamb over amb/silver I'm pretty sure you're doing it wrong.
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Help! / Re: Apothecary/Highway + 1 Expand slower than BM!?
« on: September 17, 2012, 02:57:27 pm »it seems like I didn't get nearly as much deck cycling as Apothecary normally gets by itself. This confuses me, since Highway cantrips.But if your deck is only like 25% Copper, the Apothecaries themselves aren't actually going to draw a lot of cards. They only cycle quickly in decks with very little other stuff. Once you add a lot of other actions, the function shifts to primarily sorting cards, and you just have a weaker version of Cartographer.
Wouldn't say it's weaker...
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General Discussion / Re: People that make me feel inferior
« on: September 17, 2012, 12:01:48 am »aced my math GRE at least but that's not very hard.
I suspect the math GRE might actually be easier than the math SAT. The verbal part's a lot harder, though.
On the GRE math section, I got a question that gave me a list of numbers, and asked something like "Which of these is not divisible by prime numbers" - something that's not too hard to figure out, but takes a lot of time, because you literally have to do it number by number, unless you get lucky with the first one, but then you really should check the others anyway. That is not the sort of question that should be asked on a timed exam, and definitely not something that's important for gauging my math skills.
Were they big numbers? Was it a long list?
Every number is divisible by at least one prime number. A prime number is only divisible by 1 or itself (which is a prime number). Every non-prime number has multiple divisors, which themselves have divisors, until you get down to all primes.
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1 is typically not considered a prime number.
No, but is typically considered a positive integer solution to the question posed, "Which of these is not divisible by prime numbers" if it were an option.
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General Discussion / Re: People that make me feel inferior
« on: September 16, 2012, 09:37:46 pm »aced my math GRE at least but that's not very hard.
I suspect the math GRE might actually be easier than the math SAT. The verbal part's a lot harder, though.
On the GRE math section, I got a question that gave me a list of numbers, and asked something like "Which of these is not divisible by prime numbers" - something that's not too hard to figure out, but takes a lot of time, because you literally have to do it number by number, unless you get lucky with the first one, but then you really should check the others anyway. That is not the sort of question that should be asked on a timed exam, and definitely not something that's important for gauging my math skills.
Were they big numbers? Was it a long list?
Every number is divisible by at least one prime number. A prime number is only divisible by 1 or itself (which is a prime number). Every non-prime number has multiple divisors, which themselves have divisors, until you get down to all primes.
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Game Reports / Re: How about we don't buy Sea Hag or Mountebank, and then empty the Platinums?
« on: September 12, 2012, 07:30:36 pm »Here you can play the Lighthouse every (other) turn in part because no one bought Mountebank. If you have to add a second Lighthouse and/or take Curses and Coppers, you're not really guaranteed to be able to draw all your unique cards every turn, since you might draw a hand with no HPs.
True. But it's not really a HP stack, more just HP as draw. Open lookout/lighthouse. Once you clear both estates and any curses you take (choosing estate over curse if they buy MB), you're set. Seahag will slow them down too much and if you get 2 lighthouse/lookout early you're getting hit like once, which isn't that bad. If they try to rush you with BM/HP you pick up a curser and win.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: A super random question
« on: September 12, 2012, 07:26:06 pm »
Probably level 20, praying that they hit 5 turns 3/4
by the time a new player hits 8$ there's probably not much the level 45 can do.
by the time a new player hits 8$ there's probably not much the level 45 can do.
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Game Reports / Re: How about we don't buy Sea Hag or Mountebank, and then empty the Platinums?
« on: September 12, 2012, 06:36:10 pm »
HP means Lighthouse is played every turn = ignore mountebank.
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Just Another "What's Missing?"
« on: September 12, 2012, 08:06:49 am »
Masquerade
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Game Reports / Re: - Stef - buys Herbalist with $11
« on: September 09, 2012, 07:09:52 pm »
HP-Witch will destroy doublewitch pretty handily regardless.
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Game Reports / Re: Good luck... or better play?
« on: September 09, 2012, 04:10:45 pm »
FWIW I *do* like the monument shanty town opening. Silver's pretty anathema here.
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Clasic_Cards - (Copper Week) - #38, 39, 40: Scam Artist
« on: September 07, 2012, 07:42:09 pm »
I liked the 4VP. Heres an idea:
Reserve 0$
Victory
4VP
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When you gain this, discard four coppers from your hand. If you don't, return this card to the supply.
EDIT: fixed when gain/simplified
Reserve 0$
Victory
4VP
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When you gain this, discard four coppers from your hand. If you don't, return this card to the supply.
EDIT: fixed when gain/simplified
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Villages!
« on: September 06, 2012, 08:09:51 pm »
My unrequested and overly harsh reviews 
Coastal Village seems OP, see: courtyard (comparison), anything that deals with top of deck (combo): 4/10
Shipping village also seems OP but fishing village exists, so in comparison... 5/10
Encampment *might* be balanced, but I feel like the same card without the bonus action could very well fit into 3$-4$, so this might still be OP: 5/10
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Hunter's village seems like a better designed, more balanced version of Coastal Village: 9/10
Town Hall is fine, IW/Town Hall/Gardens or Silk Road is likely insane but thats OK because it's a 3card combo: 7/10
Municipality isn't the strongest card, but at 3$ it shouldn't be. More situational than other villages: 7/10
Trader's Village compares favorably to lookout without being too strictly-better-than, I like this card: 8/10
Prospector's village is my favorite. The joys of missing like Counting House misses counters it's pretty-strong effect, and it's best in situations where you'd likely draw your deck anyways (it adds consistency, though) 10/10
Underground village seems balanced though highly situational. I like it. 9/10
Outskirts is also a fun card, but I think the on-trash might be better balanced at +2 cards. 8/10
Coastal Village seems OP, see: courtyard (comparison), anything that deals with top of deck (combo): 4/10
Shipping village also seems OP but fishing village exists, so in comparison... 5/10
Encampment *might* be balanced, but I feel like the same card without the bonus action could very well fit into 3$-4$, so this might still be OP: 5/10
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Hunter's village seems like a better designed, more balanced version of Coastal Village: 9/10
Town Hall is fine, IW/Town Hall/Gardens or Silk Road is likely insane but thats OK because it's a 3card combo: 7/10
Municipality isn't the strongest card, but at 3$ it shouldn't be. More situational than other villages: 7/10
Trader's Village compares favorably to lookout without being too strictly-better-than, I like this card: 8/10
Prospector's village is my favorite. The joys of missing like Counting House misses counters it's pretty-strong effect, and it's best in situations where you'd likely draw your deck anyways (it adds consistency, though) 10/10
Underground village seems balanced though highly situational. I like it. 9/10
Outskirts is also a fun card, but I think the on-trash might be better balanced at +2 cards. 8/10
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Now I feel like a hipster...
« on: September 05, 2012, 09:39:38 pm »
Mtg, yugioh, settlers, every MMORPG, chess, scrabble, go, poker, Sims, starcraft, etc.